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Is it possible to unzip a compressed file with multiple threads?

I unzip using this :

unzip -q "file.zip" -d path

How can I unzip faster with utilizing multiple cores and threads?

Thanks

Solution

  • In short: No, unzipping with multiple cores is not available.

    The decompression normally has lower CPU-intensity than the compression (where multiple cores are often involved).

    You wouldn't have much of an advantage anyway as the read/write-operations are more of the bottlenecks during decompression.